Even with new regulations put in place after the financial crisis, we still have a pretty caveat emptor (let the buyer beware) approach to finance in this country.

Americans are mostly free to take out an adjustable rate mortgage with a crappy rate that will leave them eating ramen every night, or invest all their retirement savings in high-risk foreign stocks if they want to, based on the premise that consumers themselves are the best judge of what financial products are right for them.(Click to continue reading…)